ecstatic - Story 38443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors and sharp contrasts. She spun, a careless pirouette in the tiny dorm room, her laughter echoing. The sheer thrill of it all filled her. Even the drab, beige walls of the dorm room felt exciting. Her stomach fluttered with a delightful nervousness.

"Did you…?" she started, but trailed off, unable to hold back a giggle.

Her roommate, Chloe, looked up, a guilty flush creeping up her neck. "Okay, yes, I… I read it."

"And?" she prompted, breathless with anticipation.

Emotion: ecstatic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.16 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.15

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion ecstatic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 ecstatic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the ecstatic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the ecstatic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.588
`ecstatic`	0.560
`de`	0.559
`🤩`	0.548
`overjoyed`	0.547

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.678
`😞`	-0.500
`ness`	-0.405
`😔`	-0.368
`😥`	-0.359